Netflix
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Eastern promise
Three worthy TV shows now streaming that allow you to zip around the world with a few clicks
The conversion of Jeffrey Dahmer
How should we think about evil?
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
Press Gang
Croatia’s war runs like a dark thread through the excellent series ‘The Paper’
Nollywood comes of age
Christopher Silvester explains how censorship has suppressed Nigerian films that have won international acclaim
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
